LEADER 03513nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910967060303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8152-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483505 035 $a(EBL)438144 035 $a(OCoLC)463172747 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000217782 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190280 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000217782 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10212224 035 $a(PQKB)11769997 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8665 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438144 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10218352 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438144 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483505 100 $a20060705d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPaper empire $eWilliam Gaddis and the world system /$fedited by Joseph Tabbi and Rone Shavers ; introduction by Joseph Tabbi 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a0-8173-5406-9 311 08$a0-8173-1548-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [267]-276) and index. 327 $aContents; Illustrations; Introduction; PART I: AESTHETICS; 1. An Interview with William Gaddis, circa 1980; 2. In the Diaspora of Words: Gaddis, Kierkegaard, and the Art of Recognition(s); 3. The Collapse of Everything: William Gaddis and the Encyclopedic Novel; 4. Gaddis Dialogue Questioned; PART II: SYSTEMS; 5. The Aesthetics of First- and Second-Order Cybernetics in William Gaddis's J R; 6. William Gaddis and the Autopoiesis of American Literature; 7. Cognitive Gothic: Relevance Theory, Iteration, and Style; PART III: CAPITAL; 8. Critical Mimesis: J R's Transition to Postmodernity 327 $a9. Cognitive Map, Aesthetic Object, or National Allegory? Carpenter's Gothic 10. The End of Agape: On the Debates around Gaddis; PART IV: MEDIA; 11. Writing from between the Gaps: Agape Agape and Twentieth-Century Media Culture; 12. Mark the Music: J R and Agape Agape; PART V: BIOGRAPHY; 13. Valuable Dregs: William Gaddis, the Life of an Artist; 14. The Secret History of Agape Agape; Works Cited; Contributors; Index 330 $aCelebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America's most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists. In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis's collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen's lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis's legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, critic Hal Foster suggested a reason for disparate responses to Gaddis's reputation: Gaddis's unique hybridity, his ability to "write in the gap between two dispensations,-betwe 606 $aLiterature and technology$zUnited States 606 $aGlobalization in literature 606 $aMass media in literature 606 $aCapitalism in literature 615 0$aLiterature and technology 615 0$aGlobalization in literature. 615 0$aMass media in literature. 615 0$aCapitalism in literature. 676 $a813/.54 701 $aTabbi$b Joseph$f1960-$01833652 701 $aShavers$b Rone$f1970-$01833653 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967060303321 996 $aPaper empire$94408536 997 $aUNINA